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Four-year-old baby dies in massive fire in Meghalaya

Shillong, Mar 18 (UNI) In a gruesome incident, a four-year-old girl was charred to death, while her sister survived, in a massive fire that gutted their house at Sahsniang-B village in Meghalaya’s West Jaiñtia Hills district on Monday night, police said on Tuesday.
The victim has been identified as Elisha Iakai while her 11-year-old sister, Glorify Iakai, managed to escape the raging blaze.
According to village elders, the fire broke out at around 8 PM when the two sisters were fast asleep and the mother of the two was coming home from the market.
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